I stayed up way late this weekend watching too many movies. Watched The Last Samurai again last night, not because I have mad love for Tom Cruise (I don’t) but because I think Ken Watanabe is brilliant in that movie.

But what I really want to talk about is the remake of the Halloween movies.

They suck. The original Halloween I and II? Can’t miss them and watch them every October. We watched the remake of Halloween II on Saturday night. What a waste of good sleep time that was. Lots of screamingscreeching for no good reason. How many nightmares was that chick going to have anyway? I turned it off 3/4 of the way though because it got on my nerves. Awful, horrible film. I need Halloween I and II with Jamie Lee Curtis pronto to cleanse my palate of that dreadful film.

I’m typically not a big fan of horror movies, and by that I mean I don’t like them at all. I hate them. I avoid them. They scare me. But the original Halloween movies? Love them. Go figure.

Though the SAW movies aren’t too bad. They’re more psychological than hey, let’s see how much blood and gore we can shove at you in 90 minutes, or how we can terrorize the characters and cut body parts off in interesting ways. Oh wait..maybe the SAW movies are like that. I don’t know, somehow they don’t scare me. If the movie doesn’t scare me I’m okay.

Halloween I and II don’t scare me. Probably because I’ve seen them 9362 times, so I know what’s coming. :giggle:

Biker Dude loves horror movies. I’m sure he’s very disappointed that I don’t watch them. I suppose he could watch them and I could shove earbuds in, listen to some soothing music and work on the laptop. That might work, as long as I’m not tempted to peek at the carnage on the tv.

What about you? Do you like horror movies? If you do, which movies are you favorites? If not, why? Do they the beejebus out of you like they do me?

So…

We bought an iPad this weekend. When they first came out, I thought they were nothing more than a giant iTouch, and since Biker Dude already has one of those, I figured, eh. No need for one.

Yeah. So much for that. I have mad love for this thing. I read almost exclusively digitally now, mainly on my iPhone, which is plenty comfortable me, but I took the iPad to bed with me Saturday night. I had been reading a book on my Kindle app on the iPhone, opened the Kindle app on the iPad and it opened to the page I left off on on the iPhone. (I do so love the wonders of technology.) The page, of course, was bigger, and reading was awesome.

Biker Dude really likes the iPad too. He plays a lot of games on his iTouch, and the games are bigger on the iPad. I can see the two of us fighting over the iPad. Heh. I’d really like to get him into digital reading, so I loaded some books for him. We’ll see. So far he’s been resistant, but I’m persistent.

And there’s this racing game on the iPad that just a hundred kinds of fun. Plus I can load all my bookcovers on the iPad and use it to showcase my books during booksignings.

I haven’t even begun to play with it. If you own an iPad, what fun things to do you do on it?

So now we have an iMac desktop, a Macbook, an iPhone, an iTouch, and an iPad. Our wireless router is even by Apple. Think Apple officially owns us now. :hide: